The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wry--possessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at Tecate," a Protes
The Stories of Paul Bowles
β Scribed by Paul Bowles
- Publisher
- HarperCollins;Harper Perennial
- Year
- 2001;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 439 KB
- Edition
- 1st Harper perennial ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062004492
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β¦ Synopsis
The short fiction of American literary cult figure Paul Bowles is marked by a unique, delicately spare style, and a dark, rich, exotic mood, by turns chilling, ironic, and wryβpossessing a symmetry between beauty and terror that is haunting and ultimately moral. In "Pastor Dowe at TecatΓ©," a Protestant missionary is sent to a faraway place where his God has no power. In "Call at CorazΓ³n," an American husband abandons his alcoholic wife on their honeymoon in a South American jungle. In "Allal," a boy's drug-induced metamorphosis into a deadly serpent leads to his violent death. Here also are some of Bowles's most famous works, including "The Delicate Prey," a grimly satisfying tale of vengeance, and "A Distant Episode," which Tennessee Williams proclaimed "a masterpiece."
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ISBN : 9780062004499
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